“We have had PARS since 2005. We use it for registration, behaviour analysis, attendance and assessment. Its very very easy for staff to use and all the information which is a key point is actually in there and refers back to SIMS. It is tailored to the school’s personal needs, has a particularly impressive impact on learning progress. The data is used to show to pupils on how well they are doing and how they can improve and highlights attendance and behavioural issues with individual student. It can derive some real focussed and direct intervention strategies. You can easily extract reports and analyse the data with the ease of use. It allows tracking and monitoring at class level. It’s an easily accessible communication tool for staff. We use it for assessments and have been tailoring our assessment procedures to make it simpler for staff to use to fit in with our termly reports. Class staff can logon, use the assessment facility, enter marks easily, a whole class report, all takes a class only twenty minutes which is a large improvement from the paper version. We also use it as a strategic tool, identify issues with attendance, behaviour, under achievement and we can identify any issues early allowing for focussed intervention.”

Mark Wilson, HeadteacherLode Heath School

“We have been using PARS for five years. We found PARS really really useful for members of staff they can see all the information they need for that one lesson from a management information level, from that one screen – its a one stop shop! PARS does all of our, attendance, behaviour management, reporting, merits and concerns, runs our detentions, target setting, assessments. It has reduced my workload spectacularly because it does exactly what you expect it to!” Watch video…..

Michael Cousins, Assistant HeadSacred Heart High School

“PARS started to prove an essential tool and was expanded to all lessons. It informed staff if a student had been missing from even one lesson. This proved essential in a battle for attendance. Our attendance to lessons improved significantly. Lateness to lessons was reduced. Another useful feature is the logging of behaviour, both ‘good’ and ‘bad’. So we are very keen here to reward good behaviour and we have a merit system that we can add on to the class register by simply clicking onto the child’s name or the whole class and add merits and comment on what these merits were issued for. Obviously we can also do that for demerits… any disruptions can be reduced by the teacher speaking to the pupil at the end of the day. It is very flexible and can be set up to suit any school, any situation if you can think of what you want it to do, it can be set up to do it.”

“Following the implementation of PARS, Staff responded with comments like, “very easy to use” and “does what it says on the tin”. Our staff were effective in its use with minor instruction and guidance. PARS is not a complicated application to use and is intuitive in its operation”

Stephen Moores, Network ManagerMaidstone Grammar

“PARS Connect was initially added to allow Senior Leaders to access student details while on duties away from the school network. Connect was quickly rolled out to all staff so that they could access data from home. Connect has provided staff with the ability to find student information from home if they need to make contact out of school hours, they then have the ability to log that call onto Connect so that all staff can access the call log, if necessary. Connect is now being used as a means of recording data on student performance with a view that it will ultimately replace our reporting procedure. PARS Connect has proved an invaluable tool in supporting the PE teachers at school as it allows them to take registers and record behaviour while outside on the field. We initially provided them with windows mobile devices, however have now re-issued them with IPOD TOUCHES as the mobile version of Safari and displays Connect brilliantly. The PE staff now has all their music for dance, gym and register in one mobile device. PARS Connect will continue to be at the heart of any improvements in school as it pulls together attendance, behaviour, and reporting.”

Julian Morgan, Assistant HeadChatmore Catholic High

“We operate a consequences and merit system on behaviour. All the collation and capture of information was previously done on paper, with the inevitable problems of bits of paper getting lost in the system. Now it is instantly captured and available for form tutors, who have all the relevant information to hand on their PCs – our P.E. staff can also access it via Connect. We can now make sure that merits and consequences are auctioned and carried out. It’s much easier to track and keep up to date and it’s also easy to use and to generate reports. Whenever we wanted changes made and the software tailored to our own particular operational requirements, TASC have carried this out and it has been implemented very effectively – the back up and support has been superb!”